njarboe

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by njarboe 8y ago
Seems very reasonable to me. Here are some other theories at the time from the wiki article about where birds came from: "Some theories of the time held that they turned into mice, or hibernated at the bottom of the sea during the wint
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by njarboe 8y ago
Rock layers on the surface of the earth that have water running through them that are drinkable have had rain water removing the elements and chemicals harmful to life for, generally, millions of years. The best water often comes from rock
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by njarboe 8y ago
Websearch on only non-corp websites. Human curated to prevent gaming the corp filter. I'd pay $5/month for that.
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by njarboe 8y ago
On the other hand, letting people access cheap trading when they are young might let them learn about the stock market the only way it sticks. The hard way. With the current retirement system in America they will be in control of their, hop
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by njarboe 8y ago
If you follow the rule that you are not experienced enough to pick out individual stocks you should also follow the rule not to pick various sectors or all the other possible index funds that exist. Following this invest in only two funds.
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by njarboe 8y ago
I wonder if all these beehives and bee keepers are similar to a bunch of pastoral goats and herders? Almost no control of who puts a beehive somewhere (tragedy of the commons). Those bees then strip all of the surrounding area of flower nec
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by njarboe 8y ago
The answer is "Not known". A decently skeptical article. One excerpt. "When scientists have collected long-term data on insects, they’ve usually done so in a piecemeal way. The 2017 German study, for example, collated data fr
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by njarboe 8y ago
Anybody in the US can try and pull as much as they can. This is a very old system going back before electricity. Paper checks signed by pen sent by mail (horse back) to banks. They checked that the signature on the check matched the one on
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by njarboe 8y ago
You should take a walk around downtown Oakland. Most of the parking lots have turned into construction sites over the last 3 or 4 years. Not many tear downs happening yet(a few, like an Acura dealership across from Whole Foods getting torn
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by njarboe 8y ago
Your car gets better the more you abuse it? Could be true if you replace broken parts with better ones.
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by njarboe 8y ago
Sure. But there are thousands and thousands of really big, old redwood trees that are growing today. It cool and all to clone the biggest old stumps. But they are likely the biggest because they were growing in very good locations. I would
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by njarboe 8y ago
It is nice when the spline is wide enough to have the title of the book on it in a decently big font. Probably a 3/4 inch book would working in most cases. I think many books are padded to reach a certain thickness. For non-fiction the
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by njarboe 8y ago
Well, with negative interest rates, the more you are in debt the more you earn. Have interest rate go back up to 5% and things get very bad quickly.
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by njarboe 8y ago
Nicely said. Master craftsmen spend much time and money acquiring high quality tools to use while they work. Most make many custom tools themselves. Having great working tools that become extensions of your body (and the body can be looked
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by njarboe 8y ago
This species of tree grows all over Northern Coastal California and there huge preserved areas of old growth trees throughout the region. It is great to keep replanting coastal redwoods to help replace all the ones that were cut down, but t
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by njarboe 8y ago
For most of history there was gold and/or silver. Fiat currencies have always been short lived. Our current fiat phase started in the 1970's so maybe it can survive a little longer?
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by njarboe 8y ago
"Cash" is also not risk free. Probably higher risk than US, Japanese, German, or British bonds. In the current fiat era a country is more likely to print money than default on its bonds. Countries that have recently gone bankrupt
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by njarboe 8y ago
Head of the FBI and its predecessor from 1924 till 1972. So, for the US, we had a department "obsessed with finding and collecting dirt on their enemies with the intent to harm or influence them" for at least that time period.
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by njarboe 8y ago
Sure. Only a psychopath would think such a thing. Thinking UBI is not a good idea is not something only psychopaths might believe.
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by njarboe 8y ago
"All UBI does" UBI is a very specific solution to a very real and difficult problem. I think other solutions to the problem of quick technical advances would be better, that's all. The sequence is , you are given a resource f
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by njarboe 8y ago
Do people really want to have all of their support depend on the government? As an American I know people that don't and even reject government paid food stamps and healthcare, although they are poor enough to qualify for them. I don&#
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by njarboe 8y ago
Unpaywall is just a database of free(libre) scholarly articles. These articles can almost always already accessed at the journal website using the normal way of finding them. doi.org/$DOI or scholar.google.com is another. The problem i
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by njarboe 8y ago
While a lot of people can acquire a lot of money by being a slightly better predictor of what the short term market thinks is the the future cash flow of public companies will be, it is a bit sad that this skill is valued so highly. So many
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by njarboe 8y ago
You surly meant 2.5b not 2.5m.
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by njarboe 8y ago
Except at the federal level it is still classified as a Schedule I drug with huge penalties. Strange times we do live in. From the DEA website[1]: "Schedule I drugs have a high potential for abuse and the potential to create severe psy
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by njarboe 8y ago
You would have to have people's rent, mortgages, car loans, etc do the same or else people will not have enough money to pay them. The rent due at the beginning of the month right when people get a pay check is a very good idea to prev
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by njarboe 8y ago
A huge amount of tax code complications and unfairness is due to the fact that companies get taxed on profit while people are taxed on income. People then try and have their spending done by their companies instead of personally. Mostly thi
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by njarboe 8y ago
Not just in deserts. Unless the rules have changed recently, one can camp for 14 days in National Forest or Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land for free before you are required to move. Exceptions are in very crowded areas (like a lot of C
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by njarboe 8y ago
That would be a protection racket payoff. Better classified as a victim or a putz in this case than a customer.
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by njarboe 8y ago
I believe SpaceX has launched one next generation GPS satellite so far (Dec, 2018). They are big and take up the full payload of a Falcon 9. So heavy, in fact, that SpaceX has to launch them in disposable mode. It is the Iridium satellites

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